Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Vietnam (1955 and 1961) in which Ngo Dinh Diem was elected and then re-elected President of the Republic of Vietnam. You must also be aware that the National Assembly was for eight years the elected legislative body of South Vietnam, functioning under the Vietnamese Constitution, until the overthrow of the Diem Government on Nov. 1, 1963. Elections were held for the National Assembly as late as October 1963-a month before a group of Vietnamese generals, encouraged by the United States Government, illegally seized power (and assassinated President Diem...
...clear just what black power would do. How was it different from the civil rights movement, if at all? What new orientation and techniques did it presage? These are the relevant questions, not the rather remote possibilities of some black overthrow of American society...
...face of fierce Viet Cong threats, the voters elected 108 members of an assembly that, over the next six months, will forge South Viet Nam's first constitution since the overthrow of the Huong regime two years...
...Banana for Dessert. The new as sembly will scarcely be dominated by military types; of 55 uniformed candidates, only 20 were elected. Of the remaining assemblymen, 34 are Buddhists (though none is a known representative of the militant Vien Hoa Dao group that tried to overthrow the government last spring), and fully 30 are Catholics, who make up only 10% of the population. That was enough to end the 100-day fast of militant Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang. From his quarters in a Saigon maternity clinic, Tri Quang promptly labeled the election a fraud. Then he ate a banana...
...Black men," cried the speaker, must unite to overthrow their white "oppressors," becoming "like panthers-smiling, cunning, scientific, striking by night and sparing no one!" Max Stanford, a youthful member of New York's new, still minuscule Black Panther Party, an offshoot of the Student Nonviolent Co ordinating Committee, was outlining his own wild strategy for black power before a Harlem audience last week, but his words carried an unintended irony. As the existence of the Black Panthers and the extremes of Stanford's language illustrate, unity-the kind of unity that inspired the successful March on Washington...